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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

EDWARD J. MOLOUGHLIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TELEGRAPHlC-TAPE SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,192, dated October 11, 18 1.

' I Application filed August 8, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. MOLOUGH- LIN, of the city, county. and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Telegraph- Tape Supporter, of which the following is a specification. v

The object of this invention is to provide device especially applicable to stock-printing telegraph-instruments for supporting and displaying the tape as it runs from the instrument, and thereby preventing its disarrangement.

The invention consists of a trough having a fiat bottom and sides at right angles to the bottom, and provided with extensions and thumbscrew at one end and a transverse tape-retaining rod at the other end, as hereinafter fully described. v

Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing the device in place. Fig.2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan of the reverse of the same. Fig. 4 is a cross-section on line or .r, Fig. 3. t

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts.

In the drawings, A represents a stock-printing telegraph-instrnment set on a table, B, and 0 represents the tape-supporter, constructed, preferably, of sheet metal, havingafiat'bottom a, and sidesbatrightangles to thebottoina, said supporter 0 being designed to be wide enough to receive the tape D, proccedin g from the telegraph-instrument A. On the reverse of one end of said supporter O are formed or attached plates or extensions 0 d, sufficiently far apart pensed with.

Transversely through the sides b, near the free end of the supporter U, is passed a headed rod, F, which is held in place by a nut, g, as shown. The purpose of this rod F is to prevent the tape D from being disengaged from the supporter O as the said tape D is handled. This supporter G can be constructed of any desired length, and always displays a considerable portion of the tape D, thereby facilitating its inspection and obviating the-necessity ot' takingit up or handling it for that purpose.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- An improved telegraph-tape supporter, consisting of the trough 0, having a flat bottom and sides at right angles to the said bottom, and provided at one end with the extensions 0 d and thumb-screw, and at the other with the transverse tape-retaining rod F, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

EDWARD J. MOLOUGHLIN.

Witnesses:

G. SEDGWICK, J. H. SCARBOROUGH. 

